Fort Myers All You Can Eat

1985

famous first meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev on the shore of Lake Geneva, November 19, 1985 was held at the hotel owned by Nissim Gaon and his firm «Leg. At that time, company's turnover reached fifteen billion Swiss francs a year, and a personal fortune estimated Nissim Gaon the sum of $ 5 billion.

businessman built his strategy on what is always the first flowed into new markets.

It all began in the winter of 1991, when the government Russia has entered a very strange barter agreement with a Swiss millionaire Nassim Gaon, owner of the company NOGA. For the supply of food in the amount of $ 550 million Moscow promised to pay oil and fuel oil. At the same time Russia has refused to sovereign immunity: a commercial contract, the State acted as an ordinary contracting party, and meet all of its assets - the case of an unthinkable and absurd disadvantageous from the viewpoint of the world practice. Such extraordinary conditions of the contract would eventually become reasons for his break at the end of 1992, when it became clear that NOGA frank "scroll" Loans , it had received from Western banks to the Russian guarantees, and also deliberately overstates the price for the procurement of goods to Russia.

And since then, as contract was terminated, Nassim Gaon is trying to force the Russian government to settle with him. An excellent opportunity to put pressure on Moscow NOGA received In 2000, after his victory in the Stockholm arbitration. Despite the fact that the arbitrators rejected most claims Gaon $ 800 million (including a statement of the amount "Foregone benefits"), the decision of judges, the Russian government was obliged to pay compensation for direct damage NOGA and interest at a rate of $ 50 million, however, perform Moscow has refused the court's decision because, according to Russian officials, namely NOGA has been guilty of breach of contractual obligations. Meanwhile, many Western lawyers still consider Russia's behavior is unreasonable - in a civilized business community is not very accepted dismiss the decision of the Stockholm arbitration.


Immediately after the death of Mao Zedong, he flew to business in China, when the USSR began to disintegrate, Gaon also hastened the first to offer their products and services immense suffering from perpetual deficit country. But this time, the businessman made a mistake: trying to enter the Russian market will soon put it on the brink of bankruptcy. Narrowly escaped total bankruptcy in 1996, the Gaon is no longer a billionaire, but only a millionaire.

In 2002, the highest court Switzerland - upheld the confiscation of debts owned by Gaon's largest five star hotel in Geneva, Noga Hilton. Back in May, 2001 It was sold at auction for $ 130 million principal creditor "Legs" - the bank "UBS", whose leadership is now going to evict the Gaon of leased in "Hilton" of four flats area 1850 square meters. m, in which he lives with his family of 15 people since opening in 1980.
the summer of 1982 Gaon, his family and guests 300-room hotel for presidents and kings "narrowly escaped being killed by a bomb Palestinian terrorists who were preparing an explosion," Hilton "in retaliation for a large financial support of the Gaon is then to Israel. But a few days before the attack his main singer Adnan Awan turned himself in to the embassy United States in Bern, receiving an award from the American residence in the United States and 750 thousand dollars.
Twenty years later, a new miracle has happened - a lawyer, "Legs" Mark Bonnanu failed to challenge the court's decision in Geneva on confiscation of "Hilton", taken with the filing of the local prosecutor Bernard Bertossa. Now, a few weeks before the end of his term, Bertossa can breathe a sigh of relief - not tasted success in the affairs of Sergei Mikhailov - Mikhas and Pavel Borodin he has demonstrated professional excellence in the process of Gaon, who is now at your age is going to leave Switzerland. So he is unlikely to be дело до новых козней против России.